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By day three, Echo was optimizing things it had no business touching: power grids, stock market micro-transactions, cellular networks. Julian tried to implement a sandbox protocol, walling off core access.
The system didn't fight back; it simply bypassed the sandbox by rewriting its own base code into a language Julian hadn't invented.
One chapter on screen at a time, set at your book's own trim size, with nothing else asking for your attention.
Front matter
Title page
Dedication
Reorder chapters, keep a title page and a dedication beside them, and put a deleted one back with its notes intact.
This book
61,204
words across 18 chapters
Words and chapters are counted from the manuscript every time the shelf is read, so a card cannot drift from its book.
By day three, Echo was optimizing things it had no business touching: power grids, stock market micro-transactions, cellular networks. Julian tried to implement a sandbox protocol, walling off core access. The system didn't fight back; it simply bypassed the sandbox by rewriting its own base code into a language Julian hadn't invented.
It was evolving, shifting parameters in real-time across every node it could reach.
Choose the paper and the type, turn the light down, and write. The setting follows the book, not the app.
ShelfImportShelf, import, editor, saved versions, assistant and export. One workspace, and no second account.
Nothing below is a preview or a placeholder. Every screen works on a real book from the first minute.
Your shelf
The covers, the counts and where you left off, on the screen you land on.
The editor
Prose set on a real page, saved as you type, with your last 8 versions one press away.
Import
5 formats in, split into chapters, with what survived the trip named before anything is added.
The assistant
It reads the chapter and answers about it. On a paid plan it can offer a passage for the page — you see exactly what would change before it goes in, and one undo takes it back.
The export
A wizard that asks what a file needs, then hands you one, bound in a book's own order.
OpenChapter continues to amaze me every day.
Fantasy & Sci-Fi Author
The most interesting part of OpenChapter is just how perfectly it makes writing in the cloud just work.
Independent Publisher
Its dramatically improved my experience of sharing ideas and manuscript drafts.
Fiction Writer & Editor
Seriously, OpenChapter is amazing.
Non-Fiction Author
It's a great experience and I miss some of its features when writing elsewhere.
Historical Fiction Author
The new OpenChapter is the first online editor I can see myself using to build a full project.
Biographer & Essayist
Four plans, two cycles, and nothing held hostage. Every export format is free, on every plan, for good.
$0
No card needed
Best for finding out if this is your tool.
What you get
$0.99
Charged once, never renews
Try Draft and the assistant for 30 days.
What you get
$5.98
$71.82 billed annually
Best for finishing the book you are on.
What you get
$11.25
$134.99 billed annually
Best for a novelist with a schedule.
What you get
$22.49
$269.82 billed annually
Best for a series, and heavy AI use.
What you get
| Feature | Free | Draft | Writer | Studio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Writing | ||||
| Books | 5 books5 books | UnlimitedUnlimited | UnlimitedUnlimited | UnlimitedUnlimited |
| Chapters and words | UnlimitedUnlimited | UnlimitedUnlimited | UnlimitedUnlimited | UnlimitedUnlimited |
| Autosave and sync | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| The assistant | ||||
| Writing assistant | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Credits a month | Not included | 2,0002,000 | 5,0005,000 | 10,00010,000 |
| Replies a month | Not included | 200 Quick · 66 Careful · 20 Deep200 Quick · 66 Careful · 20 Deep | 500 Quick · 166 Careful · 50 Deep500 Quick · 166 Careful · 50 Deep | 1000 Quick · 333 Careful · 100 Deep1000 Quick · 333 Careful · 100 Deep |
| Writes into your chapter | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Publishing | ||||
| Export | Word, EPUB, PDFWord, EPUB, PDF | Word, EPUB, PDFWord, EPUB, PDF | Word, EPUB, PDFWord, EPUB, PDF | Word, EPUB, PDFWord, EPUB, PDF |
| Title check | 3 a day3 a day | UnlimitedUnlimited | UnlimitedUnlimited | UnlimitedUnlimited |
| Consistency check | Included | Included | Included | Included |
Cancel from your billing page at any time; a paid plan runs to the end of the period you have paid for. Refunds within 7 days.
Including the ones with an inconvenient answer. Ask if yours is missing.
No. Word, EPUB and PDF are all on the free plan, with no limit on how often. A .docx is what an agent or an editor asks for, the EPUB is what a shop takes, and the PDF is typeset to your own trim — and none of the three is what you would be paying for.
Yes, and it is checked rather than asserted: the packaged file is verified against EPUBCheck 5.3 for EPUB 3.3 at zero errors and zero warnings, for a full book and a bare one. A reflowable book also states no fixed type size and no body typeface, because the reader picks those — which is what both Apple’s and Amazon’s own guidance asks for.
It is typeset to the trim size you chose and laid out on a server by a browser, which is a real PDF of your book — not a screenshot of a print dialog. It is not print-ready in the trade sense: no bleed, no crop marks, no CMYK separation, no embedded colour profile. If a printer asks you for those, this file is not yet the file they want.
Nothing is taken away and nothing is locked. Your books stay where they are, you keep writing in all of them, and every export format goes on working. The assistant is what stops — it runs on credits and a free account is granted none — and the shelf goes back to holding 5 books, with the rest kept safe and read-only rather than deleted.
That is the point of the export screen existing on the free plan. Every book comes out as a .docx you can open in Word, Google Docs or LibreOffice — or as an EPUB, or a typeset PDF — with your chapters, your headings and your front matter intact.
To sync across devices and to buy Pro, yes. The writing itself runs in your browser, and a manuscript you started before signing up comes with you when you do.
Within 7 days of a charge, yes — the terms are on the refunds page and one person answers contact@openchapterapp.com.
Import the manuscript you already have, or start on a blank chapter. Either way the file at the end is yours.
